Hi Staudek- I am not sure what lumbar stenosis is. Can anything be done for it? I had incredible pain on my foot when I woke up from surgery, felt like a truck was sitting on it. Nurses put ice on it and left it on for hours. I was out of it with the pain, but it felt numb also. I remember a nurse said at one point something like," Oh my God, how long has the foot been iced? It is frozen". It will be 2 years after surgery at the end of this month. My foot was really painful and numb for months. The first weeks, it was excruciating to have the sheet touch the foot when I lay in bed. It kept getting better as I did intense exercise (cycling, etc.) and symptoms were only slight and intermittent almost a year later. Then I fell off a ladder and broke the foot just a week shy of a year after knee replacement. Unfortunately, by the time I got the boot (which I wore to immobilize it for about 4 months) off, I had very severe numbness again. It got better when I cycled a lot in July, August and September, but since winters here in Vermont do not easily allow for outdoor cycling, it has been getting worse and worse the past months. It is hard to explain the sensation. I can feel the toes when I pinch them, but they feel numb or enlarged (not swollen) otherwise, especially later in the evening, and the whole foot hurts when I do much walking. Does anybody else have the "numb but feel" sensation? How do you describe it? It just does not feel normal.

I had nerve testing done as well and was told as well that the numb foot issues was from my spine. I did have a spinal steroid injection in my spine in the S1/L5 area. it did help the pain from my back to knee but not down to my foot. I never had issues with my spine before my TKR but depending on the doctor you see, they say the problem was from my knee because I walk/limp still or could have been damage from the nerve block when the knee was done. Others say nothing to do with my knee. go figure they all look out for each other.